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|summary=Responses to claims made in "Chapter 11: Plausible Geography" | |summary=Responses to claims made in "Chapter 11: Plausible Geography" | ||
+ | |sublink1=Response to claim: 153 - B.H. Roberts' manuscripts "Book of Mormon Difficulties" and "A Book of Mormon Study" were "clearly intended for publication" | ||
+ | |sublink2=Response to claim: 153 - Roberts' concluded that a 19th-century origin for the Book of Mormon was "entirely plausible" | ||
+ | |sublink3=Response to claim: 154 - LDS scholars have made a "steady retraction" of claims regarding the scale of the Nephite/Lamanite presence since the 1920's | ||
+ | |sublink4=Response to claim: 156 - All Church presidents, General Authorities and "most church members" have believed in a hemispheric Book of Mormon geography | ||
+ | |sublink5=Response to claim: 156 - The Book of Mormon states that the Lamanites are "the principal ancestors of the American Indians" | ||
+ | |sublink6=Response to claim: 156 - A hemispheric geography most closely aligns with an "uncontrived" reading of the Book of Mormon | ||
+ | |sublink7=Response to claim: 159 - Moroni makes no mention of traveling from Central America to New York in the Book of Mormon | ||
+ | |sublink8=Response to claim: 160 - There is no indication that the Book of Mormon people came in contact with others in the land | ||
+ | |sublink9=Response to claim: 163 - The shrinking of Book of Mormon geographical models corresponds with the growing research showing that ancient Americans came from Asia | ||
+ | |sublink10=Response to claim: 164 - A limited Book of Mormon setting is at odds with "a straightforward reading" of the Book of Mormon | ||
+ | |sublink11=Response to claim: 164 - The limited Book of Mormon setting contradicts D&C 54:8 | ||
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A FAIR Analysis of: Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church A work by author: Dr. Simon G. Southerton
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